Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs Phi-3.5-MoE

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #22 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-MoE Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • Phi-3.5-MoE has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.5 and Phi-3.5-MoE specifications
Grok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index55.0—
Released2026-07-082024-08-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked523

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 51.7 (#34), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1552—
SciCode54.1%—
WeirdML46.4%—
LMArena Coding1473—
ALE-Bench1,309—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#15), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 56.0 (#23), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
SimpleBench70%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles36%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
DTBench96.5%—
LMCA45.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.02—
PIQA—88.6%

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 60.7 (#29), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1457—
GSM8K—88.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#21), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
GPQA Diamond93.4%—
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
LMArena Expert1466—
BoolQ—84.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 37.8 (#63), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Vision1287—
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 54.5 (#43), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1425—
LMArena Korean1402—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1452—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 76.3 (#45), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Instruction Following1446—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#54), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Longer Query1463—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 65.9 (#40), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Phi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Text1448—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1457—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than Phi-3.5-MoE?

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and Phi-3.5-MoE share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-MoE has 3.

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